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“What is magic? In the deepest sense, magic is an experience. It's the experience of finding oneself alive within a world that is itself alive. It is the experience of contact and communication between oneself and something that is profoundly different from oneself: a swallow, a frog, a spider weaving its web.”

World Different Alive Magic Communication Findings Oneself Contact Spiders Frogs Weaving Finding Oneself

Author:David Abram

“There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and fifty BILLION species have existed at one time or another. Thus, only about one in a thousand species is still alive--a truly lousy survival record: 99.9 percent failure!”

Stills Different Earth Animal Millions Records Five Alive Thousand Survival Percent Plant Species Billions Fifty Forty One Time

Author:David M. Raup

“This is what metaphor is. It is not saying that an ant is an elephant. Perhaps; both are alive. No. Metaphor is saying the ant is an elephant. Now, logically speaking, I know there is a difference. If you put elephants and ants before me, I believe that every time I will correctly identify the elephant and the ant. So metaphor must come from a very different place than that of the logical, intelligent mind. It comes from a place that is very courageous, willing to step out of our preconceived ways of seeing things and open so large that it can see the oneness in an ant and in an elephant.”

Ifs Knows Way Mind Believe Different I Believe Differences Steps Alive Seeing Willing Intelligent Metaphor Oneness Logical Courageous Elephants Ants Different Place

Author:Natalie Goldberg

“Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier, ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.”

Kind Different Age Existence Alive Possibility Ideals One Time Different Kinds

Author:Hal Boyle

“There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.”

People Way Different Alive Immortality Different Ways

Author:Anne Enright

“OJ Simpson was in a different kind of courtroom this week attempting to regain custody of his two children. In order to prove to the court how much he loves his kids, OJ pointed out quote 'Hey, they're still alive, aren't they?'”

Kind Children Stills Two Different Kids Order Alive Week Prove Court Hey Different Kinds Attempting Courtroom Custody Oj Simpson

Author:Norm MacDonald

“The streets would have chewed me up and spit me out and I knew that, but I found my own ways and different knacks for getting in trouble and being reckless with my life. And I've overcome a lot of personal demons and to be alive is really my greatest achievement.”

Way Different Found My Own Alive Trouble Streets Achievement Overcoming Demon Reckless Spit Knack Greatest Achievement Personal Demons

Author:Michael K. Williams

“The Christian should be the person who is alive, whose imagination absolutely boils, which moves, which produces something a bit different from God's world because God made us to be creative.”

World Should Persons Made Different Christian Moving Bits Imagination Creative Alive Produce Be Creative

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“Actually, when John died, for the first time I thought - for the first time I realized how old I was, because I'd always thought of myself - when John was alive I saw myself through his eyes and he saw me as how old I was when we got married - and so when he died I kind of looked at myself in a different way. And this has kept on since then. The yellow corvette. When I gave up the yellow corvette, I literally gave up on it, I turned it in on a Volvo station wagon.”

Way Firsts Kind Different Eye Saws Alive Married First Time Died I Realized Different Ways His Eyes Stations Yellow Gave Up Wagons Volvo

Author:Joan Didion

“There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.”

World Kind Different Problem Animal Millions Four Alive Solutions Plant Staying Different Kinds Staying Alive

Author:David Attenborough

“If we apply the term revolution to what happened in North America between 1776 and 1829, it has a special meaning. Normally, the word describes the process by which man transforms himself from one kind of man, living in one kind of society, with one way of looking at the world, into another kind of man, another society, another conception of life.... The American case is different: it is not a question of the Old Man transforming himself into the New, but of the New Man becoming alive to the fact that he is new, that he has been transformed already without his having realized it.”

Ifs Men World Way Kind Has Beens Different Facts America Process Term Cases Alive Happened Special Revolution Becoming One Way Old Man Conception Transformed Transforming North America

Author:W. H. Auden

“We need a sense of the oneness of the 7 billion human beings alive today. When I meet people, I don't think about being different from them, about being Tibetan, Buddhist or even the Dalai Lama. I only think about being a human being. We all share the potential for positive and negative emotions, yet one of our special qualities is our human mind, our intelligence. If we use it well we'll be successful and happy.”

“Is it not possible that the chimpanzees are responding to some feeling like awe? A feeling generated by the mystery of water; water that seems alive, always rushing past yet never going, always the same yet ever different. Was it perhaps similar feelings of awe that gave rise to the first animistic religions, the worship of the elements and the mysteries of nature over which there was no control? Only when our prehistoric ancestors developed language would it have been possible to discuss such internal feelings and create a shared religion.”

Firsts Has Beens Different Feelings Seems Past Language Water Alive Mystery Elements Worship Awe Internals Ancestor Responding Rushing Chimpanzees Prehistoric Mystery Of Nature

Author:Jane Goodall

“And God must be a pretty big fan of today, because you keep waking up to it. You have made known your request for a hundred different yesterdays, but the sun keeps rising on this thing that has never been known. Yesterday is dead and over. Wrapped in grace. Those days are grace. You are still alive, and today is the most interesting day. Today is the best place to live.”

Source: If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For

“I usually say I might have a talent or I'm lacking a talent, because everyday, I must tell you, I thank whatever is up there or out there that I'm alive and that I get to do what I'm doing, and I think that sends off a lot of good vibrations in different directions.”

Thinking Different Might Alive Talent Everyday Lacking Vibrations Different Directions I'm Alive Good Vibrations

Author:Peter Stormare

“To me, one of the most profound questions we can ask is: "So what?" And so what if there's an indefinite number of worlds with alternate "us-es" in them? The "so what," to me, comes alive when I ask myself: "What if I could find a way to get in touch with those alternate mes who made those choices?" That is, persons who, if I saw them now, I wouldn't even recognize because their choices, once small, have multiplied to make them such different people.”

People Ifs World Way Persons Made Different Choices Asks Numbers Saws Alive Profound If I Could What If Different Peoples

Author:Richard Bach

“Film is very much about capturing the essence of things - if you feel it, and you've got the right person shooting it, it'll come across. Theater's a different animal; it's physically different and requires a different discipline. In the theater, you're mining the same material, constantly honing the same thing, executing it and keeping it alive and fresh.”

Ifs Feels Persons Different Film Animal Alive Materials Discipline Essence Theater Shooting Right Person Mining Executing Different Animals Honing

Author:Clive Owen

“Actors are such wonderful creatures and such wonderful instruments. It's always different on the page, or in my head. I hear it differently. I see it differently. And then, you give it to an actor and it comes alive, in a way that you didn't expect.”

Way Giving Different Actors Alive Wonderful Creatures Pages Instruments

Author:Kelly Masterson

“I don't have to worry about writing jokes. I just tell stories about things that have happened to me. As long as I'm alive and I'm living and I'm experiencing different things every day, the show will always change.”

Writing Long Different Stories Shows Worry Alive Happened Jokes Different Things I'm Alive

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“Photography is linked with death in many different ways. The most immediate and explicit is the social practice of keeping photographs in memory of loved beings who are no longer alive. But there is another real death which each of us undergoes every day, as each day we draw nearer to our own death. Even when the person photographed is still living, that moment when she or he was has forever vanished.”

Way Persons Stills Different Real Moments Social Memories Practice Forever Alive Photography Draws Photograph Different Ways Each Day That Moment Linked Explicit

Author:Christian Metz

“For when you see that the universe cannot be distinguished from how you act upon it, there is neither fate nor free will, self nor other. There is simply one all-inclusive Happening, in which your personal sensation of being alive occurs in just the same way as the river flowing and the stars shining far out in space. There is no question of submitting or accepting or going with it, for what happens in and as you is no different from what happens as it.”

Way Different Self Happens Universe Stars Space Accepting Alive Fate Happenings Rivers Shining Free Will Sensations Distinguished

Author:Alan Watts

“There are things that make us choose, on certain days, on certain nights, the opposite of love, in all its variations. But I want to acknowledge that with love and hate it's not simply one or the other. It's at least two, three, four, five different emotions existing at once, side by side, a broad spectrum of things alive.”

Want Two Different Night Certain Hate Three Sides Emotion Five Four Alive Opposites Acknowledge Broads Spectrum Variation Love And Hate Different Emotions

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“I feel like my soul yearns to experience something new at all times. That may be an encounter with a new place or persons or a song that plays and urges me to dance in a different way. I come alive when there is a chance to learn or do something different.”

Way Feels May Persons Different Soul Play Song Chance Alive All Time My Soul Different Ways Encounters Urges Something New New Places

Author:Dash Mihok

“So many different things make me come alive: performing for people, making people laugh, music and dancing or any kind of physical activity that gets me out of my head and into my body. I'm constantly inspired by my surroundings and people I see that are "killing it."”

People Kind Different Body Laughing Alive Activity Dancing Inspired Killing Performing Different Things Surroundings Making People Laugh Physical Activity Killing It

Author:Xosha Roquemore

“I come alive when there is a chance to learn or do something different.”

Different Chance Alive

Author:Dash Mihok

“Evolutionary biologists often appeal to parsimony when they seek to explain why organisms "match" with respect to a given trait. For example, why do almost all the organisms that are alive today on our planet use the same genetic code? If they share a common ancestor, the code could have evolved just once and then been inherited from the most recent common ancestor that present organisms share. On the other hand, if organisms in different species share no common ancestors, the code must have evolved repeatedly.”

Ifs Different Use Hands Today Given Common Alive Share Example Planets Species Appeals Code Ancestor Traits Organisms Our Planet Live For Today Biologist Parsimony

Author:Elliott Sober

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